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. 1987 Jul;25(7):1191–1194. doi: 10.1128/jcm.25.7.1191-1194.1987

DNA relatedness, taxonomy, and medical significance of Geotrichum capitatum.

E Guého, G S de Hoog, M T Smith, S A Meyer
PMCID: PMC269174  PMID: 3611311

Abstract

Among the clinical isolates hitherto identified as Geotrichum capitatum, two groups were defined from DNA-DNA reassociation experiments. This confirms the existence of two closely related, human-pathogenic Geotrichum species, namely, G. capitatum and G. clavatum. A third group of strains from cactus rots, though morphologically identical to G. capitatum, has a lower moles percent G + C of DNA. The three groups can be recognized by a combination of morphological and physiological characters.

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